Patents Assigned to Nice Systems
  • Publication number: 20120296642
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech analysis, comprising detecting an at least one temporal characteristic of an at least one speech of an at least one speaker, and deducing an at least one quantitative score from the at least one temporal characteristic, where the at least one quantitative score indicates an at least one extent of an at least one behavioral aspect of the at least one speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Sherrie SHAMMASS, Moshe Wasserblat, Oren Lewkowicz, Liron Aichel, Oded Kalchiem, Ishay Levi, Ronit Ephrat, Adee Lavi, Lior Hadaya
  • Patent number: 8311824
    Abstract: In a multi-lingual environment, a method and apparatus for determining a language spoken in a speech utterance. The method and apparatus test acoustic feature vectors extracted from the utterances against acoustic models associated with one or more of the languages. Speech to text is then performed for the language indicated by the acoustic testing, followed by textual verification of the resulting text. During verification, the resulting text is processed by language specific NLP and verified against textual models associated with the language. The system is self-learning, i.e., once a language is verified or rejected, the relevant feature vectors are used for enhancing one or more acoustic models associated with one or more languages, so that acoustic determination may improve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Nice-Systems Ltd
    Inventors: Yuval Lubowich, Moshe Wasserblat, Dimitri Volsky, Oren Pereg
  • Patent number: 8306814
    Abstract: A method for classifying a pair of audio signals into an agent audio signal and a customer audio signal. One embodiment relates to unsupervised training, in which the training corpus comprises a multiplicity of audio signal pairs, wherein each pair comprises an agent signal and a customer signal, and wherein it is unknown for each signal if it is by the agent or by the customer. Training is based on the agent signals being more similar to one another than the customer signals. An agent cluster and a customer cluster are determined. The input signals are associated with the agent or the customer according to the higher score combination of the input signals and the clusters. Another embodiment relates to supervised training, wherein an agent model is generated, and the input signal that yields higher score against the model is the agent signal, while the other is the customer signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nice-Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Dobry, Hila Lam, Moshe Wasserblat
  • Patent number: 8279349
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for controlling visual parameters of a capturing device to minimize clipping and saturation according to predefined parameters. The method may include processing pixel values of a current input frame of a received video signal captured by a capturing device; accumulating processing results of the current input frame to processing results of one or more previous input frames and calculating a desired dynamic range based on pre-determined user parameters. The processing may further include checking if the accumulated results are within the desired dynamic range and determining if adjustment is desired. If the accumulated results are not within the desired dynamic range, adjusting visual parameters for a subsequent input frame, by controlling the capturing device and if the accumulated results are within the desired dynamic range maintaining current visual parameters of the current input frame for the subsequent input frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Shmueli, Eran Gonen, Amotz Hoshen
  • Patent number: 8259711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring and evaluating multimedia telephonic and computer-communication interactions. The multimedia quality monitoring system may include an event manager, which may receive a notification associated with a VoIP communication between an agent and a customer and recording servers, which record data associated with the VoIP communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Avishai Elazar, Ilan Freedman
  • Patent number: 8255542
    Abstract: A system and method for reconstructing a session. A method may include receiving audio and metadata packets related to a session. Audio data may be recorded and metadata information may be extracted from the metadata packets and stored in association with the audio data. A session may be reconstructed by simultaneously replaying the audio data and presenting a visual representation of the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Mark Edward Henson
  • Publication number: 20120215535
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multi-channel categorization, comprising capturing a vocal interaction and a non-vocal interaction, using logging or capturing devices; retrieving a first word from the vocal interaction and a second word from the non-vocal interaction; assigning the vocal interaction into a first category using the first word; assigning the non-vocal interaction into a second category using the second word; and associating the first category and the second category into a multi-channel category, thus aggregating the vocal interaction and the non-vocal interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe WASSERBLAT, Omer Gazit
  • Patent number: 8249244
    Abstract: A system and method for recording and distributing calls are provided. A call may be associated with an information record. Parameters in the information record may be used to determine if the call is to be recorded. Parameters in the information record may be used to determine a method of providing a recording of the call. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Jacob Naparstek, Leon Portman
  • Publication number: 20120209605
    Abstract: Retrieving data from audio interactions associated with an organization. Retrieving the data comprises: receiving a corpus containing interactions; performing natural language processing on a text document representing an interaction from the corpus; extracting at least one keyphrase from the text document; assigning a rank to the at least one keyphrase; modeling relations between at least two keyphrases using the rank; and identifying topics relevant for the organization from the relations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyal Hurvitz, Maya Gorodetsky, Ezra Daya, Oren Pereg
  • Publication number: 20120209606
    Abstract: Obtaining information from audio interactions associated with an organization. The information may comprise entities, relations or events. The method comprises: receiving a corpus comprising audio interactions; performing audio analysis on audio interactions of the corpus to obtain text documents; performing linguistic analysis of the text documents; matching the text documents with one or more rules to obtain one or more matches; and unifying or filtering the matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Maya Gorodetsky, Ezra Daya, Oren Pereg
  • Patent number: 8234682
    Abstract: System and method for central managing of network and storage resources by dynamically receiving over a network bit rate parameters related to video processing units of one or more edge devices and dynamically adjusting a bit rate of one of the processing units based on required bit rates of the processing units and bandwidth limitations of the network. The system and method may further include dynamically receiving storage parameters related to internal storage units of the edge devices and to external storage units coupled to the edge devices and instructing one of the edge devices where to store the video data based on the storage parameters and bandwidth limitations of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Igal Dvir, Doron Girmonsky, Guy Lorman, Barak Israel, Yaron Shmueli
  • Patent number: 8233595
    Abstract: A system and method for forwarding a session based on a recording capacity. A recording sub-system may inform a session forwarding component of a recording capacity associated with agents. A forwarding component may select an agent to handle a session based on a recording capacity associated with the agent. A session may be interrupted if the recording capacity associated with the session is reduced below a predefined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Leon Portman, Stas Margolis, Shay Weiss, Noam Ben Zeev
  • Patent number: 8219404
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying a speaker within a captured audio signal from a collection of known speakers. The method and apparatus receive or generate voice representations for each known speakers and tag the representations according to meta data related to the known speaker or to the voice. The representations are grouped into one or more groups according to the indices. When a voice to be recognized is introduced, characteristics are determined according to which the groups are prioritized, so that the representations participating only in part of the groups are matched against the voice to be identified, thus reducing identification time and improving the statistical significance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Adam Weinberg, Irit Opher, Eyal Benaroya, Renan Gutman
  • Publication number: 20120155663
    Abstract: A method for spotting an interaction in which a target speaker associated with a current index or current interaction speaks, the method comprising: receiving an interaction and an index associated with the interaction, the index associated with additional data; receiving the current interaction or current index associated with the target speaker; obtaining current data associated with the current interaction or current index; filtering the index using the additional data, in accordance with the current data associated with the current interaction or current index, and obtaining a matching index; and comparing the current index or a representation of the current interaction with the matching index to obtain a target speaker index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Adam WEINBERG, Irit Opher, Ruth Aloni-Lavi, Eyal Kolman, Ido Azriel
  • Patent number: 8199896
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method for handling communication sessions by a central gateway, such as session border controller. The method may include receiving an indication that the interaction between a customer and an agent has ended and automatically routing by the session border controller the customer to an automated feedback application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Leon Portman, Shay Weiss, Hadas Liberman Ben-Ami, Uzi Baruch, Beeri Mart, Offer Hassidi, Omri Hayner
  • Patent number: 8200244
    Abstract: A system and method for locating mobile stations in a wireless communication system such as a cellular system based on at least one received wireless signal and a database of geographical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Levin, Avraham Freedman, Adam Weinberg, Meir Veisberg, Ori Nurick
  • Patent number: 8194848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a call center system having automatic means for optimizing those rules that are enforced over interactions with customers, said system comprises: (a) an infrastructure which comprises a CRM module for at least handling the interactions with customers, and hardware means for at least maintaining the communication with said customers; (b) management rules, each rule comprising one or more rule parameters, said rules parameters enforcing interaction behavior during all interactions with customers; and (c) an adaptive, self learning module, for: (c.1) monitoring all interactions with customers; (c.2) upon completion of each interaction, recording a corresponding set of full interaction details, said set of full interaction details includes those rule parameters that were enforced during said interaction, and those additional interaction parameters that are specific to that interaction; and (c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Dror Zernik, Itai Gordon, Hovav Lapidot, Eshay Livne
  • Patent number: 8195616
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for data management according to the content of the data. The system may enable data to be stored in one of a plurality of different storage options according to at least one characteristic of the data, in which the at least one characteristic is related to the content of the data. The system may comprise a rule-based storage management mechanism for the processes of archiving and/or retrieving data. Optionally, the data is stored for a time interval according to the at least one characteristic of the data and may be moved to a different type of storage option after an event occurs, for example the time interval has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yehoshaphat Kasmirsky, Ilan Kor, Avishai Elazar
  • Publication number: 20120114314
    Abstract: The subject matter discloses a method, comprising obtaining a current retention time of storage associated with a digital recorder; obtaining current bitrates of channels used to transmit video captured by edge devices communicating with the digital recorder. The method then determines change in compression rates to be allocated to at least a portion of the channels according to the current retention time and the current bitrates and transmits the change in compression rates to be allocated to the channels to edge devices communicating with the digital recorder. The method can be implemented in a system in which several digital recorders use the same storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Sergey PASHKEVICH, Doron Girmonsky, Yaron Shmueli, Meir Bechor
  • Publication number: 20120116766
    Abstract: A method and apparatus combining the advantages of phonetic search such as the rapid implementation and deployment and medium accuracy, with the advantages of speech to text, including providing the full text of the audio and rapid search. The method and apparatus comprise steps or components for receiving the audio signal captured in the call center environment; extracting a multiplicity of feature vectors from the audio signal; creating a phoneme lattice from the multiplicity of feature vectors, the phoneme lattice comprising one or more allophone, each allophone comprising two or more phonemes; creating a hybrid phoneme-word lattice from the phoneme lattice; and extracting the word by analyzing the hybrid phoneme-word lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Nice Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe WASSERBLAT, Ronen Laperdon, Dori Shapira